Word: leechburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry. Allegheny, whose net sales were $36,500,000 last year, makes sheet and plate steel for automobiles, electrical equipment, light-weight railroad cars; has ample equipment for turning out sheet steel, needs more facilities for making bars and quality alloys. Two years ago, Allegheny merged with West Leechburg Steel Co., practically doubled its facilities...
...sunny morning assembled what the Valley Daily News described as "the greatest throng in Valley history"-nearly all of Allegheny Steel's 7,000 workers and more than two-thirds of the entire population (37,000) of the Four Towns. A special train brought millmen from the West Leechburg Steel Co. plant, twelve miles away, which Steelman Sheldon acquired last July to expand his $24,000,000 company. On street corners the visitors paid 2? for a 42-page Sheldon Edition of the Valley Daily News, stuffed with local advertisements hailing the community's No. 1 industry...
...when Harry Sheldon started working at Leechburg in a steel mill of old Kirkpatrick & Co., there was no high school at Tarentum, nor had he ever seen the inside of one anywhere else. He got his start in the Episcopal Home for Boys at Lawrenceville, near Pittsburgh, emerging at 14 to a $2 a week job in a machine shop. With Kirkpatrick he worked up first to be a hammer man, then a roller, valuable and well paid. He began wearing gloves to work, drove his own carriage; married, in 1889, May Alice Hicks of Leechburg. He was moved...
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